Celeste Ng

American novelist, born in Pittsburgh in 1980 to Chinese immigrant parents and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Ng studied English at Harvard and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her debut novel Everything I Never Told You (2014) was Amazon's Book of the Year and won her the Massachusetts Book Award. Little Fires Everywhere (2017) was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was adapted for a Hulu limited series produced by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Her third novel, the dystopian Our Missing Hearts (2022), was also a New York Times bestseller. She has published short stories and essays in outlets including The New York Times and The Guardian.